Apple directly makes money off iOS apps and in most of the world you can only buy via their store. On the other hand, I can and do buy games from GoG and run them just fine on my Steam deck and can still benefit from proton.
The only reason I buy most of my games from Steam is they make things even easier than buying from GoG.
Epic makes tons of money off licensing Unreal to developers and have since before their store was a thing.
Proton makes direct zero profit, though it does make Steam the best store for anyone on Linux.
Why on earth would it hurt the studios? Graphic fidelity hasn’t increased since the new consoles came out over 5 years ago.
Consumers not upgrading hardware would if anything save them money by reducing expectations they outdo their previous games.
Why on earth would it hurt the studios? Graphic fidelity hasn’t increased since the new consoles came out over 5 years ago.
Consumers not upgrading hardware would if anything save them money by reducing expectations they outdo their previous games.
But what if they smack it so it spins around and hits me like in a cartoon? Not sure I can take that risk.
But they let me see who is at the door without coming up from the basement.
Epic doesn’t do a single thing that doesn’t directly result in profits. Features are only added off they can derive income from them. Lawsuits are filed so they can take a larger percentage of profits. Even his twitter posts are mainly about him getting a larger cut, when he isn’t defending AI child porn.
Valve is very old school in their ‘keep improving your offering and it will work out’ way. Usually companies like that get bought out and their name run into the ground. It sadly happens in all industries, from Samsonite luggage to BioWare games and even service companies.